Quotes About Religion

unhappy Catholics should just become Protestants.

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.

Wicca is a living, evolving religion.

the Episcopal Church of Scotland prayed, until as late as 1788, for the Stuarts.

Happiness without power, wages without work, a home without frontiers, religion without myth. These characteristics are hated by the rulers because the ruled secretly long to possess them. The rulers are only safe as long as the people they rule turn their longed-for goals into hated forms of evil.

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods.

Dem Sokrates gaben sie ein Gift zu trinken, und unseren Herrn Christus schlugen sie an das Kreuz! Das geht in den letzten Zeiten nicht mehr so leicht; aber - einen Gewaltsmenschen oder einen bösen stiernackigen Pfaffen zum Heiligen oder einen tüchtigen Kerl, nur weil er uns um Kopfeslänge überwachsen war, zum Spuk und Nachtgespenst zu machen - das geht noch alle Tage.

The undiminished irrationality of rational society encourages people to elevate religion into an end in itself, without regard to its content: to view religion as a mere attitude, as a quality of subjectivity. All this at the cost of religion itself. One needs only to be a believer—no matter what he believes in.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

The fanatics and the bombers do not represent a resurgence of unreformed, fundamentalist Islam, but its death rattle.

No doubt the decline of religion accounts for the rise in self-obsession and self-importance that is everywhere observable. One of the great advantages of the Christian philosophy was that it managed to reconcile the unique importance of each man with humility. Every man was important in the eyes of God, and in that sense was at home in the universe because the universe was expressly created for beings such as he.

The Americans of the age were not an irreligious people; and the fact that they were Christian was very important, for the marks of Christianity lay all across the Constitution.

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

A??r? dindarl?k, iki farkl? ÅŸekilde ç?kar kar??m?za; birincisinde dünyadan günah? silmeyi amaçlayarak kendi fikirlerini herkese empoze etmeye çal???r; diÄŸerinde ise tehlikeli etkilerden ar?nm??, içine kapal? bir varoluÅŸa ulaÅŸabilmek için kendini dünyan?n günahkarl???ndan uzaklaÅŸt?r?r.

My heart is open to all the winds: It is a pasture for gazelles And a home for Christian monks, A temple for idols, The Black Stone of the Mecca pilgrim, The table of the Torah, And the book of the Koran. Mine is the religion of love. Wherever God's caravans turn, The religion of love Shall be my religion And my faith.

Whatever helps to regulate a human mind becomes a part of its religion.

Marty This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too'

Religious institutions have failed to be a force in the lives of the Millennials.

All Bibles are man-made.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.

Religion, then, is not limited to our relation to God, but embraces, our neighbour as well.